john_amend_all: (marple)

If a sensitivity reader is someone who updates literature from previous decades by removing racist and ableist language and so forth...

Then presumably someone who updates literature from previous decades by adding in oaths and homosexuality and other things that are accepted now but weren't mentionable at the time would be an insensitivity reader.

john_amend_all: (wizard)

It's a good week for fans of reaction videos and spooky 1980s TV -- Medusa Cascade has just started on Moondial, and Marie-Clare is most of the way through The Box of Delights, with the promise of Sapphire and Steel to follow. Various Box of Delights spoilers )

On an unrelated note: The other night I had a realistic, consistent dream in which the Fourteenth Doctor was being played by none other than Sir Tony Robinson. I didn't think the script was anything special, though.

john_amend_all: (crichtardis)

[personal profile] lurking_latinist wondered who the AI-generated companions Duncan, Lloyd and Stardust might be.

I created some prompt text for the generator (basically, taking the companions' names and capsule biographies from TV Tropes, for Susan up to Harry). Then I'd add the requested character's name and hit the Big Blue Button.

Duncan, Lloyd, Stardust, Alice and Mavis )

While I'm still on the subject of AI, I recall seeing a Spectator article along 'Journalists are all doomed, we'll be replaced by AI text generators' lines. What caught my eye was the prediction that fanfic would be one of the first areas of writing to succumb to the robot hordes. I can certainly see a place for robot-generated fanfic (particularly for someone whose interest was in a niche pairing *cough* Jamie/Sam *cough*), but since fanfic is a hobby that scratches a writer's itch I find it hard to believe that there wouldn't still be humans doing it the old-fashioned way.

(I did once try to get an AI to generate Lucie/Karen, priming it with the text of Professional Development. It just output more bickering, except that each time Karen insulted Lucie she'd conclude her remark with a kiss).

john_amend_all: (ulkesh)

Well, a vignette, anyway.

Valen's Angels (864 words) by JohnAmendAll
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Babylon 5 (TV 1993)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jeffrey Sinclair, Kosh (Babylon 5), Ulkesh Naranek
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Detectives, Alternate Universe - Anime, Vignette
Summary: A young lady in distress needs to hire a hard-bitten PI. We all know how this goes.

john_amend_all: (wizard)
"The museums are full of paintings done by robots under the 'direction' of the nominal human painter. Novelists dictate the broad outlines of their books to robotic 'assistants' who return with complete manuscripts, having 'amplified' certain sections."
Isaac Asimov's Caliban by Roger McBride Allen (published 1993)

I remember saying, a few years ago:

Also, it would be nice now and again to find a subcontractor to write sex scenes rather than fading to black.

For that particular scenario, it seems 2023 could be my lucky year. There are now a number of online services (seemingly based on variants of the GPT-3 AI model) where you give them a passage of text, click a button, and the computer will generate a few sentences saying what happened next. Click again, and another few sentences emerge, and so on. Most of them operate on a subscription model where you get the first hit (or a certain number of outputs) free, but after that you have to hand over regular cash payments, the amount corresponding to how many words you want per month. I suppose at least you get the words delivered, rather than having to send a large, muscular Goon round to collect them.

So, get your characters ready for smooching, hand your manuscript over to the generator, and sit back as it appends the perfect love scene? I decided to sample the delights of some of these services, and found it wasn't quite that straightforward.

Adventures in AI )

So how did these generators perform as smut subcontractors?

This bit is reasonably safe for work )
cut for ?smut )
back to sanity )
here we go again )
conclusion )
john_amend_all: (crichtardis)

Pox and Sevenpence (318 words) by JohnAmendAll
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Saturday Night Fry
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: The Doctor (Doctor Who), Ohila (Doctor Who)
Summary: Sometimes, magic potions don't do quite what you expect.

john_amend_all: (wiztardis)
From a prompt left me by [personal profile] romanajo123 back in 2020: Clara Oswald / Fifth Doctor- Cake fic
Miscaken Identity )
john_amend_all: (ulkesh)

YouTube tried recommending the official trailer for the upcoming Who episode. I'm obviously a bad person, because my immediate reaction to the thumbnail

[Thumbnail for The Power of the Doctor trailer]

was "Don't you think she looks tired?"

john_amend_all: (wizard)

My girlfriend recently came into possession of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game' (latest super duper revised edition!) and we've spent a few evenings struggling through the example quest.

I didn't get on with it )

john_amend_all: (angels)
Memed from [personal profile] romanajo123:
  1. Give me a pairing.
  2. Give me an AU setting.
  3. I will write you a three-sentence fic.
john_amend_all: (wiztardis)
I expect it says something about me that my first reaction, on looking out of the window and seeing fireworks over a distant ridge, was to think "They're fighting again in the dead valley." (In my best Ainley impression, of course).
john_amend_all: (crichtardis)

Many happy returns once again to [personal profile] thisbluespirit!

I did manage to get something written, and here it is:

They That Mourn (~2100 words) by JohnAmendAll
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963), Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ace McShane, Mina Harker
Summary: Ace didn't believe in ghosts, but either that was about to change, or someone was messing her around in a particularly cruel way. And if they were, they were in for the kicking of their lifetime.

john_amend_all: (shipping)

His eyes met their spines through the window of a charity bookshop...

Paging Messrs Mills and Boon )

john_amend_all: (peri_stetson)
Now welcome folks, I've got a thing to say
About the fireworks show that saw in New Year's Day.
The lights were all right, and the fireworks hot —
Not the bloke though whose verse introduced the lot.
I'm not any sort of expert on rap,
But his scansion was poor and his rhymes were unfortunate.
It's not a thing that gives me a good deal of hope,
Seems verse has declined since the great days of Pope.
In fact now I happen to think it all through,
It's sunk even lower than McGonagall too.
There's a lot of work needed for 2023
To be the greatest New Year show in the Galaxy.
john_amend_all: (ulkesh)

Well, it seems this is what JMS will be doing now he's missed out on the Doctor Who Hot Seat.

Brief Thoughts )

john_amend_all: (silverliz)

Many happy returns to [personal profile] thisbluespirit!

I have managed to write birthday fic, which may be UNIT dating fic, or it may be me breaking the rule about never AUing S&S. Or both. Or neither.

[~2700 words, Liz Shaw, John Hart { as in The Sea Devils, not Torchwood! } and others...] Becalmed )

john_amend_all: (zoebel)
The other day I was reading a risk assessment for an organisation reopening to the public in the face of COVID-19. I'm afraid it reminded me of nothing so much as this Girl Genius strip.
  • Do not share pens. It is a trap that will kill you.
  • Do not touch the Point Of Sale Machine. It is a trap that will kill you.
  • Do not drink milk other than that you yourself have brought. It is a trap that will kill you.
  • Do not use food preparation equipment other than the kettle. It is a trap that will kill you.
And so on for five pages.
john_amend_all: (ulkesh)
Memed from [personal profile] romanajo123:
Take a pairing (or two or more characters), and put them in this random generator, then post your favourite resulting prompts (as many as you wish) in a comment below and I will try to oblige you by writing at least one of them.

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